12.07.2018

Of course it is.

CRC Handbook of Chemistry and Physics, 99th Edition: Amazon.com: Books
On Amazon. Where all books reside, apparently. $196.09 new (nice touch, that .09).

I woke up this morning thinking of this book. Pretty perverse, right? My copy wasn't a new one, of course. I never figured out where they came from, the new ones. Nobody I knew could afford one. Mine was fourth or fifth-generation and I passed t on when I left school. Fortunately not much in the CRC Handbook changes from year to year (or ever). A cosine is a cosine, now and forever.

It's all also online now, as well, but you have to be a member of a "participating institution" to use it. 

I don't know how you could use the website as a doorstop, though.

12.06.2018

Cool as in cool, not cool

The Cool List 2019 | National Geographic Traveller (UK)



Also, Pittsburgh? I don't see anything here about the Steelers.

12.05.2018

Here's a kid with a great future in the weapons industry

9-year-old asks town to repeal ordinance that bans snowball fights | GreeleyTribune.com


Dane Best, 9, already knows who he wants to hit with his first snowball when it becomes legal to throw one in Severance.

12.04.2018

If you insist on reading this, sit down first

Hide, deny, spin, threaten: How the school district tried to mask failures that led to Parkland shooting

Is there no end to the carnage?

Millennials are killing canned tuna

How you talk, how you walk…

Risky Business

Trump's Extreme Vetting Initiative has called for software that can automatically "determine and evaluate an applicant's probability of becoming a positively contributing member of society" and predict "whether an applicant intends to commit criminal or terrorist acts after entering the United States," as The Intercept reported last summer. 

One book to rule them all?

Michelle Obama's Becoming memoir becomes bestselling book of 2018 | EW.com


Fifteen days after its release, Michelle Obama's memoir is now the best-selling book of 2018.

12.03.2018

For a moment there I thought we had something


69-Year-Old Troll Loses Case to Make Himself 20 Years Younger
Gizmodo

Emile Ratelband, a 69-year-old man who has insisted he should be allowed to legally change his age to make himself 20-years younger, finally had his day in court. As of Monday, December 3, 2018, he is still legally 69 years old, and time will continue to have its way with him, just as it does for all of us. Read the full story


Shared from Apple News

Too much knowledge is a (very) dangerous thing

How to make your own scratch-and-sniff holiday cards | Popular Science


DOJ wants to keep its reasons you shouldn't have secrets…wait for it…

…secret.


DOJ made secret arguments to break crypto, now ACLU wants to make them public | Ars Technica


http://bit.ly/2Q6t9fM

Peak irony.